Table of Contents
Preface Edith Franck McMorran x
List of Contributors xii
Introduction Jane Taylor 1
1 Anatomie et étymologie; ordre et desordre du rire selon Laurent Joubert Dominique Bertrand 11
2 The Sound of Laughter: Recent Concepts and Findings in Research into Laughter Vocalizations Silke Kipper Dietmar Todt 24
3 Why Can't You Tickle Yourself? Sarah-Jayne Blakemore 34
4 Belly Laughs Michael Holland 42
5 Upping the Ante/i: Exaggeration in Céline and Vallès Walter Redfern 50
6 Humour Styles and Class Cultures: Highbrow Humour and Lowbrow Humour in the Netherlands Giselinde Kuipers 58
7 Searching for Jokes: Language, Translation, and the Cross-Cultural Comparison of Humour Christie Davies 70
8 And What If They Don't Laugh? Ted Cohen 86
9 Without the Rape the Talk-Show Would Not Be Laughable Iain Galbraith 93
10 Translating a Great Feast of Languages Jean-Michel Déprats 100
11 Traduire le rire Paul J. Memmi 109
12 Rire et désir dans les comédies américaines de Lubitsch: l'exemple de Ninotchka (1939) Natacha Thiéry 115
13 What's So Funny? On Being Laughed at … Adam Phillips 124
14 Laughing and Talking Sukanta Chaudhuri 131
15 Le Rire comme accident en peinture Georges Roque 142
16 La Couleur du rire: peinture et traduction Laurent Bazin 153
17 Views on the Physics and Metaphysics of Laughter Gérard Toulouse 161
Index 177
